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To: Yosemitest
I don't need to watch anything. I've seen these eclipses myself. Usually there are all sorts of warnings about looking at the sun directly even during a total eclipse. During totality there is really no problem as only about the same amount of light presents as it does with a full moon. But almost no one actually gets to see a total eclipse, and looking directly at the sun even when it is 99.9% covered is hazardous. During an annular (Annular means ring, referring to the outer ring of the sun which is not obscured; not to be confused with annual.) a lot more than 0.1 % of the sun is always visible; and so it is always hazardous to view such things without a filter.

My guess is that the thing is over by now and whoever is going to suffer eye damage will have suffered it. But FR shouldn't be a place where one might get the impression that such thing a safe to stare at.

ML/NJ

14 posted on 05/20/2012 5:52:23 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj
My guess is that the thing is over by now and whoever is going to suffer eye damage will have suffered it.

Actually, it has just started here in northern California. The moon is now about a third of the way into covering the Sun.

15 posted on 05/20/2012 5:55:55 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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